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Every time I think of Thurman Munson I start thinking of what might have been. As a Red Sox fan one of the enjoyable debates was Munson or Fisk. I think most of the country thought Bench was the best catcher, but as far as any Sox or Yankees fan would say it was either of the two AL catchers.
The two of them were nearly equal in stats, Fisk had a bit more power, maybe....he did play in Fenway. Munson drove in more runs.... Batting average went back and forth. Both were great defensively, both got a lot out of their pitchers. Then that debate came to a sudden and final end. Sure, we can still compare them in their primes, but I'd rather have another 14 seasons of greatness to compare. Would he have stayed in NY? The Yanks surely wouldn't have played the games the Sox did that eventually cost them Fisk. But then he'd have had Steinbrenner. Would he have lasted another decade or more? Probably, he always seemed more durable than Fisk. Some Yankees I truly didn't like, but Munson was never one of them He played the game "right" and was amazing. Even to a fan of the rival team. Steve B |
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I remember it like it was yesterday. My favorite player. I was just fresh off the Mantle Maris era and he became my new yankee hero.. As always rest in peace my friend....
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I remember thinking: "What could that guy have done if he had played longer?"
I only have one card from my 'childhood' - I sent a 1973 Topps Munson to SGC and it's in my 'never sell' box. Sure I was a 15-year old child, but now I'm a 57-year old child ![]()
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great stories guys...steve and dave...hilarious!!!!
i don't remember exactly where I was or what I was doing when I heard...but as a 10 year old fanatical yankees fan...Munson was my favorite player. I was devastated. I attended Lou Pinella baseball camp the summer of 79...munson was supposed to be there...his pic is on the montage...but he never made it...and his square is the only one not autographed. To this day I still have my munson scrapbook I made after he died...filled with newspaper clippings and pennies from his birth/death years and a 79' burger king munson card....My foul ball I caught at game 4 of the 78 world series that he touched...and all my munson cards. |
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I was 20, and Munson had been my favorite player for years. I was slinging blacktop for the city street department in my home town during the Summer, and the news hit me hard in the break room that afternoon. I wept alot throughout the rest of the day-- death had been a stranger to me, no funerals since I was a tot too young to understand. This truly was tough to get through.
I was lucky enough to have met Thurman in 1978--shook his hand at a bar near the team hotel in the Twin Cities. Many Yankees were relaxing there and it was a dream come true for fans of the pinstripers like me, but the sixty seconds or so talking to Munson were easily the highlight of the day and whole series I came to watch. I'll never forget.
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